Lenten Symbols for Little Kids

11 April 2014

Hello My Friends!

Okay.... I have had
the religion tab on my blog for
many months and have done nothing on it! My resolution is to start using
it..... My hope is to share some of the ideas and projects that we are
doing in my classroom. I PROMISE that this will not be all about
selling, but I do plan to share some of the units that I have in my
store.
No pressure, my friends! I am sharing the ideas and you can purchase
from me or make your own. This is not about selling, but sharing! Part
of the reason I want to do this is because so much of the religious
material that we can find commercially is for much older kids and I feel
strongly that little kids can also learn about the love of Jesus in a
way that is developmentally appropriate for them. Also, even though I am
a Catholic School teacher, I am also a Christian, so much of what I
will be sharing will suit the needs for any Christian teacher. So here is what we are
doing in religion currently...... We are discussing the Passion of Jesus
and his journey to the Cross. My kiddos are creating a booklet that is
loosely based upon the resurrection eggs that you can
purchase commercially. I love doing the Passion this way because it
cements the journey of Jesus in a simple way that little kids can
understand without going into the painful details of His walk to the
cross.We discuss Palm Sunday
and Jesus' entry into Jerusalem..... I give my kiddos the step-by-step
directions for creating the pictures and they do an awesome job with
them! I also use simple pictures that shows the content of each lesson.
Here is an example of the picture in the book as well as the student
make book. You, of course, can use any Palm Sunday picture as your
introduction. I always read from my children's Bible before introducing
each page.

Here
is the last supper. My students created symbols of the First Eucharist
rather than draw all the apostles. It just is a bit more time efficient
this way!

This is Jesus' agony in
the Garden. I told my kiddos that they just had to make the rock and
hands, but most of them wanted to draw Jesus, too.

We do discuss Judas;
even though I don't go into great detail with him. I think kids need to
know about the betrayal of Judas, though, because it was because of him
that Jesus was found.

We discuss the denial of Jesus by Peter. I thought the rooster would be a good symbol for this page.

Here are the suggestions for illustration of the pages....

If you are short on time and would like a black line version of the student book, I have added that as an option....

Here is the link to the
pack (only if you are interested!) As I said, I do not plan for this to
be all about selling, but about sharing!!